skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, not directly, but...

Once upon a time, a younger engineer worked for a company that dealt with the DOD. The DOD wanted to upgrade their website, and as often happens, the lowest bidder was a giant company who could blacken the sky with lawyers. They worked and worked, and their deadline slipped. Finally, they made something that kind of worked, sort of, as long as the wind wasn't blowing too hard.

The younger engineer noticed that the new DOD website served webpages via carrier pigeon, but with more latency. As in, page loads often took minutes. He proposed to the lord of his domain: "your majesty, what if I crafted a robot to visit all of their pages and enscribe their lore into our own tomes, such that when your customers want the information, we can give it to them in milliseconds, and not minutes. Oh, and I can make the robot labor only at night lest the DOD get persnickety." The lord gave his blessing, and the younger engineer went away and made The Thing.

The Thing worked wonders, and there was much rejoicing among the many kingdoms. But lo, the DOD was not happy, for it made their contractors look as though a pack of jackasses. And so they sent a sternly worded missive: "cease at once, knave, or we shall cut you off from the river of nectar for all of time!" And the younger engineer's lord's voice quavered, for he knew that his own kingdom would starve if this were to happen.

But the younger engineer was cleverer. He noticed that the DOD's website could not be perceived by those who could not see, but his own website was beautiful to behold by both the sighted and those not. He proposed a plan to his lord, and his lord giggled for the plan was good and clever.

The lord sent a missive of his own, both to the Maker Of The Website and the DOD, saying:

"Alas, your own website cannot be perceived by those without sight, as are some of our customers. Our website can be. If you go away and stop sending threatening letters, our customers have agreed to behold the riches of thine data through our site as a proxy, and not file a lawsuit with an injunction that shall turn your website off tomorrow until you spend a few tens of millions of dollars fixing it."

And the Maker Of The Website shut the hell up about it, and the DOD formally approved the plan, and all were happy.

Except for the Maker Of The Website, of course, but lo, they were as though a pack of jackasses.

The younger engineer was celebrated, then moved away to distant lands with better pay.

The end.
I use my own platform: https://usertrack.net/

If you run your blog on WordPress you can install it as a plugin.
He, you just couldn't do worse, right?

I have a Gopher site for that, from a really insteresting guy:

gopher.club/1/users/mmeta4/

No ads, no likes, no bullshit. Just pure text, some images and PDF's readable even under a Linux framebuffer.
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You're right. When I read the point #1, my eyes somehow glazed over the second half of the paragraph. My #3 is fully contained in your #1.
There certainly is a reason for them to do it, just not one that you or I like.
People who mock people in real life for not looking this is that way do a way more impact.

It is not just about what ideals you see. It is also and maybe more about what is said about those who fail that standard. How they are treated and how you are treated.
Why do we care about how many hours people are working? Good looking people make tens of thousands of dollars for showing up at a party for 1-2 hours. Influencers make thousands for recommending a product in a few minutes.

Tech workers have a valuable and, in the grand scheme of things, rare ability that is immensely useful to Humankind. Perhaps some very talented people can do top quality work for a couple of hours a day, but deliver immense value in these two hours. Is this a reason for concern?
are you talking about the rainbow worlds pointing corewards, or something else?
This proves again that MacOS is not worth using anymore. Apple has no financial interest in producing desktop or laptop os in "general computing" sense. Actual Apple product is the iPhone and iServices. Everything else is in category of companion device. And yes, people don't care about security and freedom they care about safety, social perception and ease of use.
I would like to hear more about this. Has anyone found details in this particular case?
In the case of animals those are known, as I'm sure you are fully aware, as Artificial Insemination and Slaughtering.

Your point seems to be that anything done to an animal is just as bad as doing it to a human. I'm not sure you can apply human ethics codes to animals. The animals certainly don't apply it to each other.

If a bull mounts a cow and the cow is clearly not participating by choice, would you put the bull on trial for rape in front of a cattle Jury?
That rings true, though Apple could do better when large problems do crop up, which doesn't happen often. They seem to need several rounds of PR beatings before doing the right thing.
Pages as in the 8K (for example) data structure used to store portions of files on disk, or pages as in text files? I'm assuming the former but I am not very good with file system internals
That certainly makes sense. In my case, I don't run any applications like that directly on my storage filesystem by default. Those sorts of files and directories, including my linux home directory, are on a non-redundant SSD. If there's a failure, I accept the risk of losing that data. 90% of the time the data either doesn't matter, or is redundantly stored somewhere else, such as a git repo. A typical use case is digital photos; I may dump them into my desktop directory at first so that I may view and sort them, and they'll live there for an arbitrary length of time. I simply won't delete them from their SD card until they're copied into the storage filesystem.

Also, I have enough disks laying around that I usually have a 2nd cold backup to wipe. So, I have some inadvertent temporal redundancy going back a year or two.

When I make a conscious decision to copy files over to my storage, I have piece of mind that I'll get physical redundancy within hours, and will get picked up by my cold backup eventually.
I didn’t think you need to worry too much about them. The prices they offer to the seller are absurdly low - plenty of people will sell independently instead. In my case they offered 35% less than I got selling the car myself. There was no way I could accept their offer, even though I was in a hurry to sell.
>The Chamath Craze is ridiculous.

It helps that there aren't very many big names with airplay in the media right now that aren't being ridiculously biased against WSB here.
Believe it or not people used to argue that planetary formation can be super rare or even a set of conditions unique to our system. Not quite unlike the current narratives about extraterrestrial life.
Made in America costs more?
I think the issue with Swing was that is was in a bit of an uncanny valley. If all controls were custom it wouldn't look strange.

Visual Basic was very... well, "basic", so it looked normal. Some tools like CCleaner and a lot of Antiviruses had fully custom looks, but didn't look out of place, because they were too different.

JavaFX looks fine, though.
Yes, this would be the best. Web site provides the content and the browser (user agent) decides how best to render it, potentially different than how the web developer would want it.
The company claims a fixed 15% markup. Something doesn't add up...
They realistically are. It's pure media fiction (and scapegoating) that a bunch of regular people are somehow moving markets. In practice they're just the smoke screen for the actual wealth making plays against their peers that screwed up in this scenario.
Youve skipped the step for obtaining a card in the first place. Something which is trivial here in Canada (easier than a drivers license, and free).

Also theres none of this in-network vs out of network chaos. Emergency care always covered, doesnt matter where you go.

It feels like youre trying not to understand how a public option could be better.
If you’ve driven an EV from Audi, Porsche or BMW you’ll see how it’s not. Tesla feels like a $100 Android from AliExpress compared to an iPhone.
Do engineers have root on their workstations?

I think this is a proxy for a lot of culture. "Enterprise," bureaucracy, trust, social status of developers, corporate IT mindset vs. Silicon Valley mindset.

I work at a big company. We are public. We have groups that handle PCI data. We have groups that handle HIPAA data. We all have root on our Macbooks. So it is definitely possible, even as a Serious Business with compliance requirements, if you care enough about developer experience to make it happen.
Oh, this sounds interesting. I’ll have a look.
Those are just good programming principles in general though. Abstract data types, information-hiding, and separation-of-concerns were being done in C well before OOP was a thing. Granted, the information-hiding wasn't as sophisticated as it got once OOP was introduced, but I don't think it makes sense to attribute information-hiding to OOP as a result, especially since newer programming language have used visibility attributes in the absence of OOP classes.
When people are risking and betting their money like casinos for 2x-10x gains. I’m not sure if any of that are in peoples thoughts when people trade $GME.

The bottom line is always $$. The “Rage” is a good story to sell to buyers
“No major wins”

>Comes from nothing

>is a billionaire
The short interest is still extremely high and likely a number of firms are already liquidating their positions to pay off GME. The squeeze should be on Friday when every option expires in the money.
The author’s OO example is hard to understand, but they’re wrong about why. It’s not bad because it’s OO, but that it’s very badly done OO: the class couples two different concerns (network API client and database). That’s why it makes more sense as a bag of functions.

The general version of the point doesn’t work very well, and many of the other OO use-cases the author discusses actually work much better than alternatives.

For example, on abstract base classes: if you replace this with a bag of functions I think you end up reinventing virtual dispatch—that is, each function’s top level is a bunch of `if isinstance(...)` branches. This is much harder to read, and harder to add new implementations to, than abstract methods. It’s also no easier to understand.

(There is a subset of this advice that I think does improve your code’s understandability, which is “only ever override abstract methods,” but that is very different from “don’t use OO.”)

For impure classes, the author suggests e.g. using `responses` (an HTTP-level mocking library) instead of encapsulating these behind an interface. This is a fine pattern for simple stuff, but it is not more understandable than a fake interface. The hand-written fake HTTP responses you end up having to write are a lot less readable than a mock implementation of a purpose-built Python interface. (Source: I once mocked a lot of XML-RPC APIs with `responses` before I knew better; it was not understandable.)
The broker who is actually holding your stock can lend them out and you can indeed end up buying your own stocks more than once. You can explicitly request the broker to not do it and, in this kind of situation where 125% of the stock is shorted and some *need* to buy it... well :)

Have a read from Matt Levine's "Infinite Game" from yesterday:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-26/will-w...

To quote:

> Falcone owned some bonds of a company called MAAX Holdings Inc. “After hearing rumors that a Wall Street financial services firm was shorting the MAAX bonds and also encouraging its customers to do the same, Falcone decided to seek revenge.” So he bought all the MAAX bonds. Then he bought more: Short sellers would borrow MAAX bonds (presumably from him), and then sell them to him, so that he ended up with “22 million more bonds than MAAX had ever issued.” Then he stopped lending them out, forcing the short sellers to buy bonds to cover their shorts. But there were no bonds to be bought, since he owned them all (and more).

> Falcone stated that the Wall Street firm should just keep bidding for the bonds. Falcone acknowledged that the Wall Street firm would suffer some losses doing so, but told the senior officer and the others that sometimes you are just on the wrong side of a trade.
This is how WSB started. It was about sharing ineffective and losing positions.
I had some hiccups, they should have gone with PeerTube, the more peers, the merrier.
You have to be careful when making a blind comparison, though, because a lot of debt VW and Toyota have is related to their financial service divisions. They're going to receive lease payments to service it.

If you were evaluating a bank that had $1tn in deposits and issued $800bn of home loans and had $200bn in cash, the $800bn figure of debt minus cash just doesn't mean that much, and people don't typically calculate EV for banks.

So say Tesla buys that bank - does their EV double to ~$2tn?

IMO, the only meaningful way to compare EVs is to unwind the financial divisions valuing them like financial companies, then compare what's left.

It's not all rosy, though, because even after unwinding financial services from these companies they've still got a lot of debt. And EVs do pose a risk that the value of the leased ICEs cars will plummet. If it happens very rapidly, that could well be an existential threat.
Nope. It's usually ascribed to J M Keynes, buy apparently it was actually one A. Gary Shilling: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
As if a few hundreds worth of GME stock would matter to a billion dollar hedge fund.

You can also go to 4chan where you can find selfproclaimed nazis who thinks they are fighting the jews on wall street.

It is all very idiotic.

As someone noticed elsewhere here on hn; regardless if it is a pump and dump manipulation or a short squeeze, GME will eventually come down. Maybe not in a week but surely in a year.
> Also, there is a worry about multiple hedge funds going bankrupt

Like you, I struggle to feel sorry for them - surely a responsible hedge fund shouldn't be shorting a single stock with sums of money they can't afford to lose? If they really are behaving like that, they must think they can't lose...
I could have sworn I got an update that they had started shipping them but their site says the ETA is the end of this month.
WSB retail is so ignorant these days, their only criteria are cheap ticker prices (GME, NOK, BB all started < $10) with a commonly recognized brand name to them, because that is all that matters to get people on board.
Ask about how changes make it to production / shipped product, and how long the process takes / what are common exceptions to the process. Lots of people have pretty strong opinions about that kind of stuff; I'd need a lot of incentive to work somewhere that's far from my ideal process, but others would need a lot of incentive to work with my ideal process.
Things may have changed since you last used reddit but now I regularly see people playing with $1000s of dollars joking about buying weekly options and trading on leverage that they don't have and then not understanding the implications of that when things come crashing down.
That is a wise move! my team is total remote, and we do audio only meetings, it works just right. Video calls are making everyone feel the way people on TV feel every slouchy every mumble every interruption is magnified. What do you use for audio calls? Zoom? Skype? Tappy is perfect for Audio-only meetings. Very simple and light, the audio quality is better than Zoom. https://tappy.so/
> Of course someone else is taking their place at an even higher cost basis.

It's probably mostly hedge funds closing their shorts
I am not sure I follow this. WebTransport defines a way to transfer arbitrary data over HTTP/3, it's not a media protocol. I expect that a well-defined media transfer protocol will eventually emerge for media over WebTransport, and it will make its way to IETF.

(FWIW, you can send RTP over WebTransport datagrams, instead of using SRTP and ICE-lite)
"Every time I go to the doctor I wish I could take myself to the vet instead."
Kramer thought that in a Seinfeld episode; it was a great episode. Season 8 Episode 10.
> What are emphatically not pretty or useful are Python’s leading underscores to loosely enforce encapsulation.

Python will not prevent anyone from doing something dumb. It'll just force them to acknowledge that by forcing them to use a convention. As a library writer, I'm free to change or remove anything that starts with an underscore because, if someone else is depending on it, frankly, they had it coming. I can assume everyone who uses my library is a responsible adult and I can treat them as that.

> And why are some classes (int, str, float) allowed to be lower case

Because they are part of the language like `else` or `def`. Only Guido can do that. ;-)
Yeah, and there was also TSLA and AMD and MU and others that did great.

The point is that they actually write out real strategies/positions as "DD", and you can make your own decisions.
I'd assume people had some some indirect evidence before. I remember some noise about exoplanets during my teenage years - there was a Polish astronomer[0] involved in the first discovery. But I thought to myself, surely everyone expected this to happen? I was later surprised to discover that even in the 90s, people seriously believed there were no extrasolar planets.

(Perhaps theirs was the more scientific position, and I was just a nerd biased by science fiction stories. But then, I was taught the Sun was just another star, and if God wanted our solar system to be special, surely He wouldn't need to create more planets than just the Earth? I guess I had some intuition for Occam's razor before I knew it by name...)

I only got a more complete picture of the timeline of discoveries much later in life, from this video[1].

(EDIT: it seems that the first discovery was in 1992, when I was single-digit years old, so the noise I remember about Wolszczan must have been about the other discovery in 2007.)

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Wolszczan

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gai8dMA19Sw
Or, you know, don't short more than available float (or anywhere near it)
Is this designed to cover up their earnings? Or is it usual to do this sort of thing at the same time as their earnings call?
Biden's DoJ just arrested a guy for posting misleading election memes back in 2016:

> https://nypost.com/2021/01/27/alt-right-twitter-troll-ricky-...

> Written on the photograph was the message, “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history,” the complaint states.

> More than 4,900 people, encouraged by the misinformation campaign, cast their vote via text, officials said.

> “There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Seth DuCharme.

Anyone dumb enough to think they could vote by sending a text message frankly shouldn't be voting. (I didn't vote in 2016, if it matters.)

And lies and disinfo are traditionally protected speech. Even lying about military service (without any intent to defraud) is protected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alvarez

The "it's a private company" argument is out the window.
Rossmann is hardly rich. His whole brand is fighting Apple for right-to-repair legislation as well as a bunch of pro small business stuff. What exactly is wrong with this opinion on the oppressive covid lockdowns?
If you want to try role-playing a Soviet chip designer, check out "Kohctpyktop: Engineer of the People," an old Zachtronics game (requires Flash): http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...
I remember my teachers mocking me when I was saying that if the Sun is a star it's rather logical there are planets around other stars and that the view that they don't exist is the extreme one, but I was scoffed at that this is "pure speculation" and "science fiction".

On the other hand, when seeing a model of atom and solar system for the first time I was convinced reality is a set of layers with the micro- and macrocosm being just the two closest ones we're able to perceive, but I'm far less sure of it now.
When everyone starts avoiding answering challenges to their opinion we end up in a highly divided society, where there is no understanding for the other points of view and no common ground. I think this is visible already in our world. There's a fine blurry line between challenges that address essential aspects of an idea and those that divert attention to minute details or go on tangents. I would say the ideal attitude would be to try and answer a couple of such "attacks" or explaining why they are besides the point.
If you short, you are borrowing a stock from Alice, and selling it to Bob, hoping to buy it back later from Bob at a lower price. But, you can then borrow again from Bob and sell to Charles. Ad infinitum.
Yeah, I hear this a lot. That the goal of every scientist is to disprove the consensus and overturn bad science. Yet every time I read a blog article by someone who has actually tried to overturn bad science, they say it's an uphill battle against bad incentives, vested interests and academic politics.

If you know of a scientist who has written about succeeding in achieving this objective and had a great time (in the last 20 years), can you point me to their writing, please?
cool product, but the blog hasn't seen a post since 2017. is it active?
But react isn’t the widget library
We've never had practical fusion. We used to have frictionless P2P with talk, ytalk, and similar chat tools. Then NAT came along and ruined everything.
> Good luck finding a stable, fiscally responsible and reliable company that ticks off all the fundamental indicators, a CEO who is a rock who never offends anyone or anything, and has a stock that does more than barely beat the rate of inflation and maybe pays out a measly 1-2% dividend.

You mean like every single, successful startup ?

Almost all of whom are run by CEOs who act professionally, are careful about their public statements and don't have the net worth to keep paying out SEC fines.
I fully agree that at least in principle it seems wrong to have insurance for routine care, when most insurance only covers catastrophe.

I think the two practical problems with this view are (a) what's routine to you might be catastrophic (or at least seriously detrimental) to someone else, and (b) missing routine care often leads to catastrophic outcomes.
"Due diligence". It used both as a tag for posts that try to give real analysis, as well as a meme to describe terrible or humorous logic for making trades (e.g. "DPZ DD: everyone at this party just agreed that Dominoes Pizza is the best pizza, go long DPZ", stupid stuff like that).
One less character and familiarity.
Kw is power. Do you mean kwh?